That project I poured myself into fell apart spectacularly, and there was nothing I could do about it. And if you decide that’s the end of the story, it’s a bad one. But if you take the long view, you see that that project led me to Cold Tangerines, which led to the next book and the next. If you take the long view, you realize it was a speed bump, not a dead end. What life teaches us over time is that if you wait long enough, lots of things that look like dead ends are really just speed bumps.
